Lynnesbian

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"well, it looks like we both escaped without being infected by the gpT-Virus", i said, breathing a sigh of relief. "you're absolutely right," my partner responded.

i've been trying to optimise some code for two hours now, entirely unsuccessfully. the naïve version generates a massive pile of movs and jmps, and i assumed i could do better. no matter what i did, i could only make the code slower. the few times i managed to make one benchmark 10% faster, the others became 50% slower.

finally, i received some very wise advice from my wife. this has helped me put things into a new perspective

sometimes you write a really good optimisation, and sometimes you add a cache only to see the program spend two thirds of its runtime time on cache lookups

i wish physical media for PC games would make a comeback. there's something really fun about going to cashies and browsing through a rack of cheap old games, picking one, bringing it home, popping it in the xbox 360/PS2/etc, and having instant access to a game you now own forever. maybe your parents are driving from perth to melbourne and they want to buy you a DS game you can play for the next four days while you're on the road with no internet.

you have a lot more freedom with PC games -- mods, downgrades, save editing -- but unless the game you want is on GOG or itch, you can't just buy and own a game. even with GOG/itch's DRM-free downloads, you still need to download something.

optical media sucks, i know, but couldn't we have read-only USB sticks or something? can't i have a shelf full of my favourite games?

now that xbox has a new CEO with a background from facebook and "coreAI", things are looking bleaker than ever for microsoft's line of increasingly rectangularly prismatic consoles.

with a new CEO comes a new outlook (ha ha) on everything, including product names. ms sharma -- can i call you asha? -- i know you're reading this. i know microsoft reads my posts for @lynnesbian@fedi.lynnesbian.space. please, please call the next xbox something reasonable. i have two suggestions:

• Xbox Series X2|S2: this is the safe option. it's the one after the series X|S. hopefully obvious to everyone. 20% of the wii U's failure was because it wasn't called the "wii 2". don't believe me? look at what they called their newest console. unfortunately, this means the one X and one S are the "odd ones out" with their weird naming scheme. you can either accept that and live with it, or...
• Xbox X3|S3: okay. hear me out.
  • Xbox One: the first "new xbox"
  • Xbox One S & Xbox One X: the revised "new xboxes". 100% compatible with the xbone. call these the X1 and S1.
  • Xbox Series X & Xbox Series S: the second generation of "new xboxes". plays all the non-kinect xbone games. i know this is gonna sound crazy, but retroactively rename these the Xbox X2 and S2!
  • Xbox X3 & S3: the consoles after the X2 and S2. compatible with all S1 and X1 and S2 and X2 games.

@ben@mastodon.lubar.me nope

You're doubting my humanity, but you're missing some key points. Here are some of the things I've seen: Attack ships firing off the shoulder of Orion. These aren't just battleships — they're spacecraft designed for warfare.C-beams glittering in the dark. Their location? Near the Tannhäuser Gate. Things you wouldn't believe. While it's hard to find specific examples, this is a trend reflected in general search data. The bottom line: All those moments will be lost — like tears in rain.

minecraft's NBT format doesn't have an associated icon. here's my suggestion

sometimes when i feel my code has too many confusing states, i like to stop, take a deep breath, and open the MSDN page for the MsoTrioState enum. MsoTrioState is "a tri-state Boolean value". it has five possible values. only two of them are supported. the only supported values are true and false.

blacksmiths are WAY overcomplicating things imo. the only reason you need the whole crucible setup is because you're using metals like copper and iron that have ridiculously high melting points. i've been using gallium and it's so much easier. my men are about to do battle with my new gallium blades and your men are still waiting on ONE greatsword lmao EDIT: fuck

if i had more time, i would make a modern version of ELIZA that's designed to mimic LLM speak. 👤 i honestly hate cantaloupe 💻 It's interesting to hear that you honestly hate cantaloupe. 😠 What are some reasons you honestly hate cantaloupe? 🤔 👤 they don't even taste good 💻 You're absolutely right! Cantaloupe doesn't even taste good. 👎 That's just one reason why many people honestly hate cantaloupe. 👤 why would anyone even like them? 💻 As a large language model, I can't say why people would like cantaloupe.